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Discover your Paralympic Potential -  The Pathway to the Paralympics

A group gathers round our Paralympic potentials lead and former Paralympic athlete Ben Quilter who is delivering a briefing ahead of a previous give it a go day. The backdrop is an indoor velodrome.

Could you #BeTheFuture? 

  • Do you have a visual, physical or intellectual impairment? Have you ever dreamt of competing in a Paralympic sport? Let us help you Discover Your Paralympic Potential. 

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Attend a Discover Your Paralympic Potential Day:

  • Experience Paralympic sports  
  • Meet Paralympic medallists  
  • Find out about Paralympic classification  
  • Take part in basic performance profiling  
  • Speak to experienced coaches and talent leads  
  • Engage in a Disability Sport Activation Zone  
  • Hear from National Disability Sport Organisations, charities, and ParalympicsGB partners  

Explore your Paralympic Potential

  • Targeted talent identification and recruitment initiatives delivered by National Governing Bodies in partnership with ParalympicsGB  
  • Participants will be invited based on sport, age, performance and classification criteria 

Paralympic Potential Calendar of Events

  • Discover Your Paralympic Potential Day - Crawley – Saturday 19th October 2024 
  •  Discover Your Paralympic Potential Winter Sports – Manchester – 26 October Curling (am) and Snow Sports (pm)*
  • Discover Your Paralympic Potential Day – Sheffield – Saturday 9th November 2024   
  • Discover Your Paralympic Potential Day – Liverpool – Sunday 2nd February 2024  

Strategy and Guiding Principles

We deliver events for any disabled person to attend an event and discover what sport can offer. Collaboratively designed and delivered with partner organisations to offer a glimpse into disability sport from grassroots through to performance pathways. Find out more by scanning this QR code. 

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How we achieve this: 

  • Person Centred - The Athlete Recruitment Network endeavours to put the individuals we engage with at the centre of the process. 
  • Collaborative Excellence - Our collective strength enables holistic support, appropriate opportunity, and a commitment to excellence at each stage of the Paralympic Potential pathway.  
  • Pride, Empowerment, and Belonging - These winning behaviours are a core part of ParalympicsGB Team culture that we are embodying when interacting with any person or organisation.   
  • Embracing the Paralympic Movement - To ensure that, through sport we are inspiring a better world for disabled people.   
  • Be The Future - To support disabled people to discover and explore sporting opportunities. Enabling the development and classification of future GB Paralympians where appropriate.    

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